Where: Trieste, Italy (45.8° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 13.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Early Middle Pleistocene, Earliest Galerian.
Environment/lithology: karst
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Materail held at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste, the Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara and the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra di Firenze.
Primary reference: P. Ambrosetti, G. Bartolomei, C. De Guili, G. Ficcarelli, and D. Torre. 1979. La breccia ossifera di Slivia (Auristina-Sistiana) nel Carso di Trieste. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 18(2):207-220 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40808: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 01.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhinolophus ferrumequinum Schreber 1774 greater horseshoe bat numerous mandibles and palates. Abundant.
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse 1 upper incisor, 14 upper molars, 5 upper premolars, 6 incisors, 4 lower premoalrs, 7 lower molars, 9 distal metapodia, 1 metatarsal diaphysis fragment.
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Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904 bear upper teeth: 2 M1 fragments, 3 canines, 1 I3. Lower teeth: 3 M3, 1 M2, 1 M1, 3 canines (1 fragmentary), 1 I3. MNI = 2.
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Pachycrocuta brevirostris Gervais 1850 brown hyaena Lower teeth: 3 M1, 1 P3, 3 P2, 1 canine. Upper teeth: 1 P4, 1 P3 fragment. 1 calcaneum, 1 metacarpal, 1 metatarsal.
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Dinaromys sp.1 Kretzoi 1955 vole lower teeth: 1 mandible with M1-M3, 2 M1 fragments, 1 M2, 1 M3. Upper teeth: 3 M1, 1 M2, 2 M3. MNI = 3.
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